Summary
"In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in six deserts on five continents that evoke the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-sixth of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in... Full description
- The desert library : the Empty Quarter, Oman
- Field of thunder : the Great Victoria Desert, Australia
- Troublemakers : the Gobi Desert and the Taklamakan Desert, China
- Bastard sturgeon : the Aralkum, Kazakhstan
- Between great fires : the Sonoran Desert, USA
- Matter out of place : the Black Rock Desert, USA
- The inner mountain : the Eastern Desert, Egypt.